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Use DA Form 2397-2 when you need to technical report of us army aircraft accident part iii - findings and recommendations. Full title: TECHNICAL REPORT OF US ARMY AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT PART III - FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS. Everything you need is on this page — the file, the entry rules, the routing. Edition February 2009, status not stated, 1 page(s), roughly 200 fields.
Two references decide everything about your use of it: OCSA maintains the content, PAM 385-40 sets the trigger and the routing. Consult the directive when your case is not routine; otherwise the printed blocks tell you enough. The person named in the entries fills it, or the administrative office holding the file does it for them.
The formats are PDF, XFDL, and the choice comes down to keyboard or pen. Fillable pdf for typing — live fields, tab order, saved entries. Printable pdf for handwriting — same page, no interactive objects, print it blank. Content is identical; only entry method differs.
Save the download and open it in a dedicated reader. That single step prevents the common failure: an in-browser viewer accepts your typing and discards it at tab close. Confirm with one field and one save cycle before committing the whole form. The xfdl copy needs the IBM Lotus Forms Viewer. That format runs in Army systems and nothing else reads it.
Free, unregistered, unmodified. What arrives is what the publisher released.
What the form asks for
- ACFT_NO
- A_ATM
- A_DUTY
- A_MISTAKE
- A_PHASE
- A_REM_A
- A_REM_A_1
- A_REM_A_2
- A_REM_B
- A_REM_B_1
- A_REM_B_2
- A_REM_C
- A_REM_C_1
- A_REM_C_2
- A_ROLE_D
- A_ROLE_S
- A_SYST
- A_SYST_1
- A_SYST_2
- B_ATM
- B_DUTY
- B_MISTAKE
- B_PHASE
- B_REM_A
Start at the top and get the header exactly right. Official spelling of the name, identification number, unit, date. Everything downstream finds the record through those entries; nothing else on the page has that consequence.
Move between fields with tab; the build-time order follows the page and misses nothing. Click check boxes and option buttons, and expect an exclusive group to release the old choice when you set a new one. The trap is field width. Single-line fields do not wrap, so an overlong entry displays complete on screen and prints cut at the margin — put it in remarks or on a continuation instead. Mark inapplicable fields rather than leaving them blank, since an empty box carries no information about whether the question was read.
Signature comes after every other entry — ink or an approved electronic means, and without it the document is a draft. Where reviewing, approving or witnessing signatures are called for, take them in printed block order, each dated on the day applied. Before release, one pass from the top. The defects worth hunting are always the same four: mandatory fields left empty, identification digits transposed, dates with day and month reversed, and stale data surviving in a copy reused in place of a blank form.
Read the Privacy Act statement at the point it appears. Authority, purpose, routine uses, mandatory or voluntary — four facts, and they govern what you are about to enter. A completed copy holds personal data and takes the handling rules that attach to it.
The prescribing directive names the destination; office custom does not. Depending on the case that means a specific office, the unit administrative channel, or the personal record. Keep a copy first, because the original does not come back. Retention runs on the applicable records schedule.
Look for associated forms by series and number. In the DA series, documents sharing a proponent or a governing directive tend to travel together, and anything referenced on the page normally submits alongside. Collect continuations, covers and transmittals in advance of sending.
Edition date is the version number, printed on the page. Hold a locally saved copy against the current edition before reuse, since nothing on your machine signals a revision. Work already executed under a superseded edition remains as filed.
What is distributed here are reproductions of published Department of the Army documents. Independent site, no official standing, no forms of its own. Nothing on the page constitutes legal advice, and acceptance by any office is outside what can be stated. Put questions about entries, requirements or eligibility to OCSA or your servicing administrative office.
Questions and answers
- What is DA Form 2397-2?
- TECHNICAL REPORT OF US ARMY AIRCRAFT ACCIDENT PART III - FINDINGS AND RECOMMENDATIONS
- Which edition is current?
- February 2009
- Who is responsible for this form?
- OCSA
- In which formats can it be downloaded?
- PDF, XFDL